La battaglia di Algeri

The Italian director (Pisa, 1919-Rome, 2006) would bring neorealist aesthetics and ethics to the political turmoil that shook the European order in the aftermath of the Second World War and its most pressing failures, from colonialism to covert dictatorships, during the 1960s and 1970s. Some of his most notable films include The Battle of Algiers (1966), about the Algerian decolonization movement, and Operation Ogre (1979), about the attack on Carrero Blanco in Spain and the beginning of the end of the Franco regime.